12 Santa Clarita Students Sickened By Tainted Water Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:11 PM PDT
of bottled water which sickened 12 students at a junior high school on Thursday. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the agency’s Los Angeles office was dispatched to La Mesa Junior High School in Santa Clarita on Thursday. Los Angeles County fire inspector Steve Zermeno said that at 12:45 p.m., school officials reported that 12 students were complaining of headaches, nausea and dizziness after consuming Aquafina water from a vending machine The students were taken to a hospital and released. Jeff Dahncke, spokesman for The Pepsi Bottling Group, which manufactures Aquafina, said there was no evidence that the contamination was caused by the company’s manufacturing process and the company believes it “We have examined and tasted numerous bottles that were produced at the same time as those in this case and have found them to be free of any problems whatsoever,” a Pepsi statement said. “The only products in question have been those that were previously opened, and we are working closely with local authorities to determine exactly what happened.”
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White House Scare - Small Plane In Restricted Airspace Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT
A small, single-engine plane strayed into restricted air space near the The episode was over within minutes as two F-16 fighter jets and two Coast Administration.
U.S. Northern Command spokesman Michael Kucharek said the two helicopters established communications with the pilot. The plane landed at Indian Head Airport in Charles County, Md., where airport owner Gil Bauserman said the aircraft had been flying from that the plane would be making an unscheduled landing at 12:45 p.m. EDT. The plane landed 15 minutes later, escorted by the F-16s and the helicopters. “It was just a navigation mistake, the GPS went and the pilot got confused.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:22 PM PDT
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US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States. “It’s very obvious that we are very concerned. We’ve stood up emergency operation centers,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesman Dave Daigle told AFP. One major source of concern was that the virus included strains from different types of flu. “This is the first time that we’ve seen an avian strain, two swine strains and a human strain,” said Daigle, adding that the virus had influenza strains from In 11 of 12 reported human cases of swine influenza (H1N1) virus infection in the United States from December 2005 to February 2009, the CDC has documented direct or indirect contact with swine. But the seven known cases of the previously undetected strain in the United States — five from California and two from Texas — did not have contact with pigs. The seven people infected have all recovered from the flu.
“We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human,” the CDC said on its website. “However, at this time, we Local and state health officials were interviewing not just the people who were infected but the people with whom they had contact, Daigle noted.
3rd Possible Swine Flu Outbreak In Mexico Mexico has reported a third possible outbreak of swine flu in with four suspect cases and no deaths to date, the World Health
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